George H.W. Bush

We must strengthen the alliance of the industrial democracies.

But that's what this little meeting is all about.

I'm calm and contained. I don't get mad easy anymore.

Then let's err on the side of fairplay.

I want to be sure that our grandchildren will be able to enjoy that same natural abundance that we enjoy today.

I will use the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic Policy Council to advise me in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of economic and domestic policy.

Manuel has long experience with the important issues that face this Department.

If he's got those fears, I have no problems with his expressing them.

My plea would be for prompt fulfillment of the responsibilities of the Senate committee, prompt action by the United States Senate.

I believe that economic growth and a clean environment are both part of what all Americans understand a better life to mean.

The public demand for a safe, clean environment has probably never been firmer.

We're going to put a hell of a lot more effort into it.

I do not want to be out there as less than fully supportive of my nominee.

I said in the campaign, that there could be times, working cooperatively with leaders in the hemisphere, that American assistance would be sought.

Among my first items on my personal agenda is the protection of America's environment.

I am troubled by that, and I just don't know the answer.

I'm proud to be over here for the swearing-in of my friend Manuel Lujan as the 46th Secretary of the Interior.

The cause of the environment is so vital and so personal that working in this vineyard is its own reward.

I have seen nothing, not one substantive fact, that makes me change my mind about John Tower's ability to be Secretary of Defense.

The Department of the Interior is our nation's principal conservation agency.

I believe, as you do, in clean air and clean water and the protection of American wildlife.

I am pledged to improving the quality of life: for improving the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink.

The American people deserve to have had this issue openly discussed, debated, and voted upon.

Today I am signing H.J. Res. 129, passed overwhelmingly by both the Senate and House of Representatives, which rescinds the proposed pay increase for Members of Congress, executive branch officials, and our Federal judges.

I believe that some level of pay increase is in order, and I will be working with the House and Senate leadership to develop proposals to achieve that end.